Three photographers of the Washington Post, Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti, won the Pulitzer Prizes in the breaking news photography for their up-close portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti.

In this Jan. 2010 photo submitted by the Washington Post tilted "The Elderly" Idamise Pierre leans against a tree as she waits to bathe at the Azil Communal Home for the Aging. (AP-Yonhap News)

In this Jan. 2010 photo submitted by the Washington Post tilted "Haiti Weeps" a woman cried while attending a worship service at Cathedral Notre Dame, which was destroyed in the quake in Port-au-Prince. (AP-Yonhap News)

In this Jan. 2010 photo submitted by the Washington Post tilted "The Moment Time Stopped," survivors piled bodies of the dead outside for weeks after earthquake in Port-au-Prince. (AP-Yonhap News)

In this Jan. 2010 photo submitted by the Washington Post tilted "Rescue", a tiny baby named Reggie Claude is rescued from the rubble of his home. Disaster relief workers and family members rejoiced as Oscar Vega carried the child through the streets. (AP-Yonhap News)

This photo provided by the Pulitzer Prize Board and published Jan, 15, 2010, is part of a series of photographs of a devastating earthquake that stuck Haiti three days earlier. Cindy Tersme throws herself on the rubble of Ecole St. Gerard, screaming as she searches for her brother. (AP-Yonhap News)